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New to membership..FOUND IT! I absolutely LOVE your immediate and smooth (but curt when necessary) commentaries!!! Thank you!!! THIS is why I became a member. Although quite serious, and the worst of all, the possibility of losing MORE freedoms...you bring a FRESH breath of air to "the obvious". As our economy bleeds, I can find a bit of smooth-flowing COMMOON SENSE with your "take" on this terribly real situation. I have always "seen" what is REALLY going on behind what is actually BEING seen, so THANK YOU for diverting my attention from, again, "the obvious" while I live a simple life here...I am, thankfully, able to give volunteer help 2.5 days of the week which gets me out among PEOPLE, social distancing notwithstanding. Much gratitude, Mark.
Love the bumper music.
Hey Mark, if you start interviewing people again you should look into Anastasia Lin and Jennifer Zeng.
Love the Kung Flu Fighting remix. Hope you get songwriting credit and it's on your new album.
Mark,
Late to listening to this, but 2 thumbs up. Thank you!
You'll know when you've gone too far on your Audio Mark Steyn Show when you add some reverb and sound like a Mexican DJ on a border line AM blow torch.
Loved the new lines to Kung Flu Fighting!
Last 4th of July as the family was gathered together I asked my brother-in-law in the course of conversation if he agreed with leftist premises. He matter-of-factly and unequivocally answered yes. He is a highly educated and well read guy whose family fled Soviet Russia for their lives as the Stalinist era was beginning, so the certainty of his response surprised me. I didn't pursue it because it would have been futile and would have spoiled the whole gathering. He is presently in semi-retirement and his great obsession in taking his RV on trips all over the country. I'm sure it hasn't occurred to him that the coronavirus lockdown has become a Green New Deal dry run for his lefty pols. I assume he sees nothing in the actions of Gretchen Whitmer, Eric Garcetti, Andrew Cuomo, AOC, Bill De Blasio, Ralph Northam, et. al. that would give him pause. Does he note the obvious relish with which they have curbed every aspect of our lives and their yearning to do more of it? I don't think he's figured out that the agenda of the Left means no more RV trips ever, not to mention empty shelves in every store. Does he not know that sheltering in place awaiting permission to breath is part and parcel of the premises of the Left? Apparently not. It's hard to understand the spell that totalitarian control casts over people's minds.
If I might offer a reason for your brother-in-law's attitude it would be that liberal socialist types believe communism is a great system but just hasn't ever been implemented correctly.
I had a conversation with a relative over the weekend where I said WuFlu and the response was, "You mean COVID-19." I replied that I should have said ChiCom flu and then the subject was dropped but the person was adamant about not calling the virus something that would indicate its place of origin. I don't understand because any rational person can assess the truth with the available evidence. And that is my ultimate explanation -- they are irrational.
Arguing with people about what the name is rather than being concerned with the death and havoc it has created is related to something I've seen over the years. Horseplayers would rather LOSE their money using a handicapping system they "approve of" rather than CASH tickets using a system that they're contemptuous of. I kid you not, I have seen this on dozens of occasions. The ideology is the ONLY thing that matters, because it means that the idiot BELONGS to the "in" crowd.
If and when President Trump opens up the economy and tells people to get back to work, wondering if there'll be some tyrannical small minded Governors saying, "not just yet, you don't." Just visited a local strip mall here in NM the other day for pet supplies and auto supplies and noticed the cell phone store was open, too, but the two clothing stores and sporting goods store were closed. What's the big difference between handling pet packages and canned goods in a pet store or accessories for my car and picking up a pair of tennis shoes? If they were clearheaded about this they never had to close retail shops, they could've extended the social spacing to those clothing stores as well. It's all very inexplicable and counter intuitive. We can expect three more years of pain and punishment from this Governor (D) and I hope then she's histoire.
Fran, you know why the cell phone store was open, don't you? Because cell phones are essential for your betters to track how close you get to someone else.
I guess they got all they can get on me and more, Robert. Unfortunately for them, I'm a total bore with an anger issue.
F., you write about the possibility that "there'll be some tyrannical small minded Governors saying, 'not just yet, you don't.'" In a terrible way, I rather hope that will come to pass, much as I pity the victims of any such attenuation. Mr Trump's "enemies" could do nothing better designed to make themselves the object of public revulsion. As things stand now, he'll be damned if he opens the economy and anybody more dies of the Chinese lurgy, and he'll be damned for not opening it sooner if nobody more dies of it. Anybody who holds up re-opening moves straight into the "damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don't" hot-seat.
I don't think that it will happen, though. Democrats aren't all utter imbeciles. The governors are certainly neither as monumentally stupid nor as naive as Ms Ocasio-Cortez and her club: they know that in a no-win situation it is best to position yourself where you can blame somebody else for what you do or don't do. They'll strengthen their cover by putting up a hue and cry about the violation of the rights and powers of state governors in a federal system, ever intending to go right along with it. Mr Trump will of course probably help them strengthen their cover by blustering about presidential powers and demand that they re-open the economy in unison.
Meanwhile poor wally the small business owner will watch his whole lifetime being washed into the sewer, and in years to come, he'll be able to watch comedy show replays on the poorhouse television which make fun of small entrepreneurs, like "Open all hours".
S., just last week the Senate Democrats and Senate Republicans couldn't agree on the allocation of additional funds: the Republicans wanted funds to go to the workers and the Democrats wanted funds to go to the states to take care of the damage done. Rush has been saying for years that if the states get the funds the money will more likely go to the unions who funnel it back to getting Dems reelected. This is what happened during the Obama stimulus. Some governors want to hang onto their power and they don't give a piece of $::t to help the workers.
If the Governors play hardball and disallow businesses to open, President Trump could cite the Interstate Commerce clause of the U.S Constitution for Federal control. You wouldn't have to stretch the Interstate Commerce Clause too far to encompass almost any business. Based on what I heard Judge Napolitano say the other night on Tucker, you could argue that all of actions by these Governors to shut down businesses in our state have been unconstitutional.
Victor Davis Hanson talked a bit about this tonight on Tucker. The cities and states who have been declaring sanctuary city and states started this big creep against the U.S. Constitution and have gotten away with it so far. Maybe it takes a Kung Flu sized piece of $::t to hit the fan to make the city and state tyrants to pay the piper.
"[M]ake the city and state tyrants to pay the piper": wouldn't that be nice, F.? Thanks for your most insightful explanation.
Judge Napolitano - he's the youngest-ever New Jersey high court judge who now works for Fox News, isn't he? Did he expressly say that the Interstate Commence Clause can be stretched to encompass almost any business? I've never had to deal with it, but I'd understood its purpose to confine its scope pretty tightly to business transactions relating to sales and purchases of product and services between states and other countries, between states, and between states and semi-autonomous the Indian tribes, and then only for specified purposes, and to exclude such transactions within any given state. I can see that the scope would cover many business transactions without any stretching at all, but not that it would necessarily preclude other authorities exercising powers over the same transactions, and, particularly, transactions within the state. Guess I just don't know enough about how these things are handled in the U.S. federal system, and I need to read the legislation itself.
I probably shalln't, though. If the constitutionality of state shut-downs is to be challenged, I imagine that we'll have the answers soon enough. I'd certainly enjoy seeing how the grey areas relating to who has the final say in matters not expressly specified in legislation are handled. If they're not challenged, I suppose we'll be able to infer matters from there. It will be interesting to see who the proper complainant/s will be. Some hefty class action suits against certain governors would be most gratifying.
No, S., Napolitano didn't mention Intestate Commerce. I heard Victor Davis Hanson mention it at the end of the segment with Tucker. Last night but we were watching the show and my husband who had a small scholarly publishing company in Maryland in the seventies and eighties said that almost all business have to buy their materials from across state lines and/or ship or sell their products outside state lines so he suggested that could be an avenue for the Federal government to force compliance by the states. Did I ever mention he was my smart other half?
Smart other half: vou're very funny, F. I'm sure that your other half is every bit as stimulating as you are, of course. Interesting insight: it certainly supports Mr Hanson's suggestion. Too early for me to place any bets, but I know how I'd like this to go.
Everything I say here is my best guess and speculation, S. I'm no expert on anything just observing. I'm hoping this reopening goes smoothly. People are getting very upset and while they have shown themselves to be remarkably flexible and patient so far, you can sense this is not benefitting anyone to continue shut down. There are outlier regions to be sure around the country as I'm sure you see in yours that I think will have to be handled with common sense the way they could've been handled from the start. We have small communities in remote counties that have break outs. So, I wonder when it seemed that my theories about population density and sunshine were seeming so obvious, as I say, all guesswork, all speculation. The cases at my daughter's hospital shot up from 2 to 30 in two weeks. Still low, but watching the LA area. The Covid resident at the elderly family member's nursing home was removed from the premises. So, good news there after some confusion. Baking, so got to run!
Goes for me too, F. We all speculate and theorise: that's the fun of it! I mean, what do I know of American legislation? (As you've been kind enough not to mention.) Been peeling wholesale potatoes, so nice to hear of your baking.
Thanks Mark.
The joke was ISIS were going to work from home. One blew up 15 members of his own family.
As the rooster would crow, "Allahu Akhbar! doodle doo!"
I do know my sister, niece and neighbour lost their jobs. No 80% of wage. My brother (who is a builder) has said this is the worst he knows in his working life. All self inflicted and now we have the Gestapo up and running in the UK.
The Great Wuhan Bat Flu Farce. The cure is death to the economy. Our great grandchildren will be paying for it.
This will teach the grandchildren not to have children, Ray.
Yes Fran. That would be the smart thing. I do think the USA will become stronger after this. Hopefully the rest of us also, but we dont have Trump.
China has always been a snake and the globalists let them bite us time and time again and we've had to thrive in pain from the venom it delivers while the snake is allowed to live. The globalists assure us that the snake won't bite if we just give it what it wants but it still bites us because it knows it can get away with it. This time the dose of venom is stronger and is more deadly. The globalists are immune to the venom but we aren't. We need to cut the head off the snake if we don't want to be bitten again otherwise we will all be content with being bit by a snake that wants us to suffer and die.
I am impelled to write and let you know that I find myself suffering from some kind of PTSD as a result of that Islamic Rooster skit. I think that was probably the most physically and psychologically repulsive noise I have ever heard. It is the stuff of torture -and you dragged it out. That was just horrible Mark.
Hmmm, I have to agree the chicken was a tad overdone!
The funniest segment of stupid pet tricks ever aired. Thanks for the diversion, Mark.
Marc, please pardon the interruption. I'd like to ask Mark if he would do the following, and I can't find / don't see a way to post without replying to previous post..
Would it be possible to construct a simple Table of Contents for each show, so that we can easily locate the beginnings of each segment? It would look like a set list on You Tube:
00:00 Opening (Subject)
03:51 Next Segment (Subject
07:47 Next Segment (Subject)
And so forth. Thanks!
The US has recorded over 22,000 Covid deaths in 3 weeks - around half of those in one state. There are also over 12,000 (on average much younger) patients with the disease in critical condition - around half of those in one city.
Fauci is now leaking against the President. Yet Fauci's reactive, blanket-lockdown advisory - as opposed to being targeted in place and time to escalating outbreaks - followed his prolonged, on-record inaction.
Contrast with Taiwan: "Yet nearly 100 days in, Taiwan has just 376 confirmed cases and 5 fatalities while restaurants, bars, schools, universities and offices remain open. The government of President Tsai Ing-wen, whose deputy is an epidemiologist, made tough decisions while the crisis was nascent to stave off the kind of pain now convulsing much of the rest of the world." - The Japan Times - April 8th, 2020 - "Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea buck global lockdown trend".
Even two-faced Fauci now admits that the CCP is responsible for disease and death. Fauci - who is blaming the President for health bureaucrats' "nothing-to-be-concerned-about" advice throughout February and early March - is no better than the WHO. #FireFauci
PS. Love the new Kung Flu lyrics. And thanks for the Tim Brooke-Taylor "Goodies" obit! The MSS Coronacopia series gets better and better. Informative, funny, serious, retro... keep them coming!
The pandemic is just another means for the elites to get rich. The Neocons get rich from war, the politicians ask for "disaster relief" in the billions when hit by a hurricane, wildfire, tornado outbreak, flood, or earthquake and we expect it all to go to "the victims" hit hard by it but they use a fraction of what they get and pocket the rest. This pandemic is a way for enrichment. They'll ask for billions more than what they need and they know that no one will question their assessment in the media because no one dares to unless you work for Trump.
When it comes to Trump not calling out China the way we want to, he's seems to be the only world leader outside of Taiwan to know that China needs to pay for what they've done. Going against China may sound easy but our nation needs to be thriving again before we can go it alone if that's our only course when it sounds more and more that the EU will side with China even more so after this is over and may side with them if we went to war with them.
I don't like Fauci as I see he's just another "expert" that believes we have the memory retention of a goldfish. The way we treated this virus is like taking out a now deceased Iran murderer found in Iraq with an atomic bomb than with a drone strike that kills just him.
The CCP used an atomic bomb on Wuhan to deal with the virus. And yet - while the Taiwanese went into proactive containment mode - Dr Fauci sat on escalating community transmission and continued to play it down.
PS. "Going against China may sound easy but our nation needs to be thriving again before we can go it alone". Agree - and a robust US-Australia alliance will be crucial during President Trump's second term.
Also, if the SARS-CoV-2 demands that action be taken against China, referring to the *victims* would be a good start: the disease and deaths are the result of direct harm caused by China. There are also untold victims of the economic collapse, and those targeted by the pandemic police.
Dear Mark, thank you so much for taking the time to put together these wonderful shows every day, and keeping us together as a club. The "Last Call" puts a human face on those who are dying from this dreadful virus and introduces me to many I'd never even heard of before. I appreciate how you are providing us with humor and levity during this difficult time, and I nearly busted a gut listening to the "Allahu Akbar"-crowing rooster. Thank you a million times over. Beth
Mark replies:
Thank you, Beth. Much appreciated. The only problem with "Last Call" is that we barely scratch the surface, but I hope nevertheless it captures the range of lives lost.
Hello Mark. If the epicenter of the virus was in flyover country, say St.Louis, do you think the country would have shut down in the same fashion it has. Or is this the result of a bi-coastal panic attack?
I hate to contradict you, Mark, but the greatest disaster would be to put a Democrat (aka Socialist) into the White House in November!
Mark, sitting here in my state imposed dungeon, I thoroughly enjoyed listening to your commentary on my Chinese built laptop; hopefully sans a built-in, back-door, self-destructing tracking chip. I thank you greatly for your Coronacopia editions of the Mark Steyn Show. Fortunately, there was no accompanying video for the chicken bit. It would have spoiled the moment to see what the handler had to do to the chicken to illicit the Akbar. By the way, why did the chicken cross the Mobius strip? To get to the same fowl quarantined, curfewed, sheltered-in-place cage.
Now that I have been officially released from my aerospace job; thanks to the collusion of the despicable Democrats, the Chinese communists, and the mendacious media, I no longer have to multitask working and listening to Coronacopia. I can now give you my full attention! Also, my $1200 governmental pacifying, bankruptcy inducing, kiss-off or pay-off is on queue for an April 15th direct deposit. I am thankful that I will have the cash and the right to go the supermarket and not have the right to exercise in my garden. This will ensure that this crisis will go to my waist. Life is good!
While the preceding is written from a facetious perspective, I would like to clarify that in the twilight of my working career I have been blessed and will recover from or not have to exist long in this insanity. My real anger and sorrow is for my children and grandchildren. Our progeny are the ones who will truly have to suffer the long-term consequences of our profligate spending and the institute of a police state.
What was the facetious part?
Walt, you are correct. I was concerned about the tone and not the facts of the first two paragraphs.
Jeff: Like millions of others, we've been in isolation - trapped in the house - now for about six weeks.
Seen on the AARP Foundation calendar page for the month of April 2020:
"To learn more about how Connect2Affect is addressing the problem of social isolation, visit connect2affect.org."
How prescient!
At first, it was somewhat jarring (and very funny) to hear the female announcer, in a soothingly sweet voice, announce the day's Brit Wanker Copper. The tone is that of an upbeat commercial for a new dish soap that is ... so easy on the hands! That said, these cops are officious, stupid, and exasperating, and the lesson to be learned from such examples is that we are ruled over by idiots right up the line. And we have plenty of this nonsense going on here in the states as well. On the California coast a few days ago a gaggle of police officers waited on the shoreline to arrest a lone paddle boarder. Nuts!
Thanks for these audio shows, Mark. During our self isolation we're eating beans out of the can and drinking what limited rainwater is to be had here in Arizona, so your shows are the bright spot of our day.
Mark, I take it you don't like the original "Girlfriend in a Coma"? Maybe it's a good thing that I didn't request "Everyday Is Like Sunday", the second single from Morrissey's debut solo LP, as a "Song of the Week" considering every day is feeling like Sunday (before Sunday shopping became a thing).
That's exactly what I tell my mom (90ish) when she asks me what things are like outside (where I strongly discourage her from going): like Sundays back during blue law days, in the mornings before churches & lunch spots would open up.
Were some producers calling for "more rooster" as you taped? He gargled a pretty good "Allah" early on and at last he nailed "Akbar" but it took a lot of squawking to get there. Even so, I think you cou!d splice together a discernable Allahu Akbar from that rooster.
Yesterday, I watched The Passion of The Christ, which I had bought ages ago on iTunes, and forgotten about, unwatched.
The Pharisees and the baying crowds reminded me of Adam Schiff, Pelosi, Schumer, their chums in the media, the Twitterati and the Hollyweird crowd. It's a good job that Trump is not turning for the other cheek.
MAAAAAARK this version of KungFlu flighting!!!!
GAHHHHHHH FUNNNAYYYYYYY.
Life seldom works out as you think it should.
The worshipful chicken put me in mind of my favourite Steinbeck story, "Saint Katy the virgin", in which the wicked porker, Katy, is converted by two tithing monks cowering in a tree before Katy's impious malice. In the story, the news is not all good: when the monks return with the now-acquiescent Katy in tow to their abbot, expecting praise, they receive instead an expression of ire, there being at the time plenty of true believers but a shortage of bacon.
I suppose that the terrified chicken, upon mastering the second part of the motto, might have saved himself from slaughter, but now faces the prospect of circumcision, and his coach will face the wrath of her imam, there being at present plenty of true believers but a shortage of halaal in the supermarkets.
Very good, Segnes!
Smithfield has just closed a porker conversion facility, which turns pigs into pork. It produces 5% of American pork, potentially leading to a pork shortage, which will horrify Nancy and Chuck.
All the more reason to totally embargo China. Let them eat bats.
Let them eat bats, indeed, P.
I wish that I could believe that Nancy and Chuck give a damn about shortages suffered by honest folk, as long as they have the barrels in which to do their business.
Keep smiling.
I laughed, I cried. As who among us did not? Learning of Tim Brooke-Taylor was a special loss for me. We lived in London in the early 90s (the Major years, as no one remembers them), and "I'm Sorry, I Haven't a Clue" is one of my abiding memories of our time there (along with "One Man and His Dog"). I can't say what one man's life is worth, but China can't afford to make the world whole for the loss of TB-T.
The Caliphate Cock, however, had me roaring. I think he did get to Allahu Akbar, by Jove. Now, if they can get the hens to peck Shakespeare on a fleet of Underwood manuals, I will be duly impressed.
Indeed JP, TB-T was Rector of St Andrews University when my first wife was the finance director of the student-organized arts festival. I remember fondly a breakfast meeting where TB-T amused, encouraged and offered good practical advice to the slightly awe-struck students. A true gentleman whose character and talent shone through on 'I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue'. Another memory was Ronnie Scott who tried to bilk the students by double-dipping on travel expenses but that's another story.
Fun Times! I see the NYT has not yet responded to questions regarding its editing practices and Joe Biden's accuser, Tara Reade. They are likely very busy trying to contact Prof. Blasey Ford re: her thoughts on the allegations, ya think? Also saw 4 reporters put together a hit piece on Trump's "failure" to react quickly to close the country because Dr. Fauci said so (or did he?). They needed one to research and write the article, and 3 others to make sure to remove anything that might be considered "balance". Our local AP outlet had similar article with same approach- leave out any item that might suggest Trump isn't a murderer. Good thing we're all pulling together on this!
Sorry to say Paul but you might as well try to hold back the tide. The national media long ago merged with the Democratic party - as Dan Bongino pointed out last year we're looking at mere bias in the rear view mirror. What conservatives seem unwilling to face is the true venality of the new left in America - were I religious I'd call it evil. You mentioned the AP Paul - this is beyond doubt the most corrupt news organization in America by far and reaches perhaps an order of magnitude more citizens than CNN and MSNBC combined. Only social media has a wider reach which isn't reassuring for obvious reasons. In essence the AP has banned the word Hydroxychloroquine from it's coverage of the pandemic - I read their dispatches every day - and I don't need to explain why do I? In the paper today was this bit with the headline "No thanks Mr. President I'll take my advice from Doctors" clearly referring to Trumps clash with Dr Fauci over this now widely accepted drug in use around the planet. It matters not in the least that Trump was 100% correct to this crowd. Watch for WW III to erupt when Trump gives the OK to open America up. The left wants to bring this capitalist economy down once and for all and this is their golden opportunity and as always conservatives have no clue as to the nature of this enemy they face today.
I bought Funky Gibbon. From Woollies. I was thinking about Bill Oddie just the other day - not sure why - the thought stream ended up with him being a twitcher.
The BritWanker Cop segment demonstrates that men are not the only onanists, and that indeed all genders enjoy it, except the liars, but especially the Old Bill and Old Billie. Cressida Dick must be having the time of her life, unlike Jean Charles da Silva e de Menezes.
Whilst harking back to the "Blitz" spirit, one should recall Bill Pertwee's greengrocer ARP Warden Hodges and note that the genetics run deep.
Crime and cases the clap soared during The Blitz. Probably because the police were chasing blackout violators and hookers.
I keep reading about the God-like NHS, like the BBC and the Great British Bobby and The First British Class Education, extolled as the envy of the world. So never ask how the Norks can be so gullible.
All that aside, I had a great laugh listening to this, Mark. Thanks!
Soon, schoolchildren in Britain, enjoying their superior educations, will be as eloquent as the cockerel every morning at assembly.
My labradoodle was on red alert when that rooster went jihad.
Out here in Washington State, the original home of American Coronavirus, our local newspaper here in the Tri-Cities in southeast Washington, home of the nation's 580 square mile Hanford nuclear weapons factory, has reported a breakdown by age group of positive infectees versus fatalities. All the local dead are 60 and above, into the 90s, and the ratio of dead to infected is 20%. That means that for us senior Americans, being exposed to the China Virus gives worse odds than Russian roulette. We don't have to visit our local Native American tribal casino on the Yakama, Umatilla or Nez Perce reservations to get a thrill. We can just walk down to the local Walgreen's toilet paper aisle to play Wuhan Roulette.
I'm also a Washington Stater, and the official state-wide death toll (now over 500) shows 92% are over 60 and 100% are over 40. This is not widely reported. Not sure why.
Another oddity of the state-wide death COVID death census is that it is broken down by race, with "Hispanic" being the first category listed and all the others being "non-Hispanic" something-or-other, as in "non-Hispanic black" "non-Hispanic white" "non-Hispanic Native American..." and down the list to "non-Hispanic Samoan...". When did Hispanic become the baseline in Washington State, with all the rest of us all defined as "non-Hispanic" something?
Mark replies:
That's truly strange, Gary. Are there, in fact, any Hispanic Samoans?
Gary, speaking of Hispanic Samoans and the census; I never thought that it was any of the US government's business what race its citizens are. The information is not used to benefit society but to redistribute wealth and gerrymander legislative districts. I have previously checked the "Other" box and written "Homosapien" on the census form. I have yet to have the authorities knock on my door, but...just a minute, "Who's there?"
They put you down as a "G" in the rainbow.
Only in the NFL.
"It's in Prince Charles' bedding" was good.
First chicken I have heard saying something other than "the sky is falling" in quite some time!
Best version of "Kung Flu Fighting" yet!
Bravo!
I am only a few minutes in but your continued updates to the lyrics are wonderful! Reminiscent of America Alone no one does Doom and Gloom with more laughs! Thank you for your efforts to keep us smiling...
Mark replies:
Thank you, Guy. Very much appreciated - and hope things are going well in your corner of LockdownWorld.